Java is the new king of foistware, displacing Adobe and Skype from the top of the heap. And it earned that place with a combination of software update practices that are among the most user-hostile ...

Who doesn’t love free stuff? I, for one, don’t, and neither do millions of users burdened with unwanted software when they install a new update of Java, Adobe Reader, or Skype. Foistware, as it’s ...

GUEST OPINION: Over the past five years, Oracle has made four rounds of changes to its Java licensing and pricing policy for what was previously a free programming language and toolset used by ...

Update January 10, 2013: A zero-day exploit is in the wild, attacking fully patched versions of Java. You can protect yourself by disabling the Java plugin from your ...